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Mole hunt

2007 Reader Submission
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A 63 year old man in East Germany (Zingst)electrocuted himself when running high-voltage lines (380V) through his yard in an effort to get rid of a mole on his vacation property. Apparently he put several metal rods into the ground and connected these to high-voltage lines.

The police had to remove all circuit breakers before they could get on his property. They do not know yet how long he had been lying there before they found him on Wednesday.

No word about what happened to the mole.

Sorry, the link is in German only:
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,459188,00.html/jto/AP


TRANSLATED BY BABELFISH.ALTAVISTA.COM --

Mole hunt ends for 63-Jaehrigen deadly

With the hunt for moles in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania a man died by a current impact. The 63-Jaehrige had let flow on its holidays property at the Baltic Sea heavy current by the earth.

Zingst - "such a thing I did not experience, said yet" a police speaker. The citizen of Berlin had an accident deadly had let itself some be broken in, in order to bring the moles in its garden to the distance: It had driven, to it to 380-Volt-Kabel had attached metal bars into the lawn and heavy current by the earth flow to let, as the police communicated.

In order to arrive, Ermittler only all safety devices in the garage would have had at property in Zingst to switch off. The corpse of the man was found on Wednesday. How long it already lay there, cannot be said yet.

jto/AP

Submitted on 01/11/2007

Submitted by: sven
Reference: http://www.spiegel.de/panorama

Copyright © 2007 DarwinAwards.com

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James said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
Now THIS one is different! Instead of stealing the high-voltage lines, he tried putting them to good use! Goofy couldn't have done better! Well, make that Goofy, Elmer J. Fudd, and Wile E. Coyote all rolled into one! Anyway, this is a good example of overkill. I'll wager the mole survived...! Thanks, Sven!


Graham said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
Now THIS one I like! It's been a while since we saw a DA worth story, but this one does it for me. What an idiot! To be 63 years old and STILL not understand about electricity: priceless! Bet your bottom dollar the mole is just FINE! Thanks, Sven


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